The latest version of Visual Studio 2026 offers developers numerous productivity improvements, enhanced collaboration, and faster tooling. It enables the best experience for individual developers and teams to improve their existing projects, as well as build the next generation of modern cloud solutions.

All plans allow you to quickly set up a development environment in Azure and allow you to build and test applications using Visual Studio 2026 and other useful developer tools. Plans can also be leveraged as base images for the Microsoft Dev Box service.

All plans include the following tools and settings:

Gen2 VM images
Microsoft 365 Apps
Visual Studio 2026 (Pro or Enterprise, depending on the plan you select)
Visual Studio Code
Git for Windows
GitHub CLI
Azure CLI
Azure Developer CLI
Azure PowerShell Module
PowerShell 7
Developer mode enabled
Hyper-V
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

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Visual Studio 2026 (Microsoft Dev Box compatible)

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